BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]

Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by zeristor on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:39AM (#26248592)

The BBC made an effort in establishing web literacy, but that never quite seemed to take off. I seem to remember something called Auntie, which makes the success of this all the more interesting.

There was a Barry Norman programme on Saturdays where they played programmes over the radiowaves for people to record and play. Or did I dream that?

Edit: It would seem not, it was called Chip Shop:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/58aae80bd5844a729097ca16998c6c02

Weirdly they have the address to write to in the programme listing with the post code removed, I don't know if it is defunct or for GDPR.

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by isthisnametaken on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:52AM (#26248670)

It appears the postcode was W12 8QT

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/14545

It's the old postcode for BBC Television Centre, so it's defunct (and the Royal Mail address search doesn't list it any more)

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by codeulike on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:53AM (#26248677)

There was also Micro Live which was pretty successful and well remembered I think. BBC Micros were in lots of schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc5vFmedE1c

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by rolivercoffee on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:01AM (#26250564)

There was a show called The Net: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)

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